Alps and Med Day 2: Zurich to Lucerne

From Lucerne …

Our flight arrives late morning after our overnight (and direct!) flight from Boston. We get through Swiss passport control, collect our luggage, and meet our guide. Rodolphe Rousseux is from France, with extensive travel experience as a tour director in the United States and Europe. Then we board our bus, meet our driver Silvano, and are on the way to Lucerne to check into our hotel.

[Pro tip: On a bus tour like this travelers pick a seat the first time they get on the bus and that’s where they sit for the entirety of the trip. My strategy is to pick a seat on the left side of the bus so that when we get to the Mediterranean we will be traveling east to west along the coast and I’ll have an ocean view in a few days time. But I’m too slow and end up picking a seat on the right side of the bus!]

We visit Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrücke) built in the 14th century over the Reuss River. A 1993 fire destroyed most of the bridge, but it’s been faithfully restored as a symbol of Switzerland’s medieval craftsmanship.

After a quick hotel check in we’ve got time to walk through Lucerne. On a beautiful Saturday afternoon in mid-April, the towns squares are bustling. And we get our first look at the stunning Swiss Alps!

Then it’s back to the hotel for dinner and I do the best I can on this post in a state of jet-lagged delirium!!